Sun Yafang (Chinese: 孙亚芳; born 1955)[1] is a Chinese engineer and business executive. She is the longest serving Chairwoman of Huawei, a position she held from 1999 to 2018.[2] As of 2016, she is listed as the 38th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[3]
She began her career with Huawei in 1989 and became chairwoman of the corporation in 1999.[4]
In March 2018, Sun Yafang stepped down as Chairwoman of Huawei after nineteen years and was replaced by Liang Hua.
Awardsedit
In May 2012, she received the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award from the International Telecommunication Union.[2][9] As of 2014, she is listed as the 81st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[3]
^"Huawei Annual Report Details Directors, Supervisory Board for First Time" (PDF). Federation of American Scientists. Open Source Enterprise. 5 October 2011. (PDF) from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022. Xinjing Bao reported that Huawei Chairwoman Sun Yafang worked for the Communications Department of the Ministry of State Security for an unspecified period of time before joining Huawei (28 October 2010).
^Barrett, Devlin; Stein, Perry; Nakashima, Ellen (2022-10-24). "DOJ accuses 10 Chinese spies and government officials of 'malign schemes'". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2023-10-18. Huawei's former chairwoman, Sun Yafang, who retired in 2018, had previously worked for the Ministry of State Security, China's main foreign intelligence service, according to an essay published under her name in a Chinese magazine in 2017.
^Gollom, Mark (December 7, 2018). "Huawei is 'growing astronomically' despite allegations it spies for China". CBC News. from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
^Vaswani, Karishma (2019-02-18). "Ren Zhengfei: 'When the mask fell'". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
^"Sun Yafang Receives Prestigious Award « The Haven Shen". haven.ca. Retrieved 12 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
External linksedit
Official website
January 01, 1970
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